Assistant Financial Accountant

Who is Plenti?

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 200 people based in Australia, Plenti is small enough so everyone can make a difference in their role, but we have very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia’s best lender.

Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014 and is now listed on the ASX, with annual revenue of over $200 million and a loan portfolio of over $2 billion.

What's the role?

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, you will be working in a team responsible for the core finance and tax function. The activities performed by the team ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial results, strong control of financial resources and delivery of insights that supports decision making across Plenti.

The role is suited to an individual who is a team player, who is accurate and meticulous with problem solving capabilities and a continuous process improvement mindset.

What will you be doing?

• Performing daily finance activities including but not limited to the management and processing of investor monies, allocation of borrower repayments, uploading bank statements and BPAY files and following-up unreconciled bank transactions

• Preparing daily pay-runs from our core technology platform and uploading payments into the banking systems for processing

• Performing month-end activities for our Retail and Wholesale Lending Platforms

• Booking invoices and bills into the accounting system and completing the bank and GL reconciliations

• Preparing valuation reports for our funding trusts including daily inflow and outflows reporting

• Preparing and posting manual journals into the accounting system for month-end reporting

• Communication and management of provision fund claims

• Processing debt recoveries received from external debt collectors on a timely basis

• Support the NAB car loan product with respect to processing payments and support for bank reconciliations

• Assisting in the preparation of BAS returns

• Assisting the wider finance team on project and ad hoc tasks as required

What will make you right for the role?

This role is suited to someone earlier in their finance career, but who wants to work in a dynamic, fast paced and fun environment where they can grow and develop over time – we are a rapidly growing business where everyone’s role and responsibilities keep expanding every month. Key attributes for candidates include:

• Studying towards CA/CPA qualification

• Excellent time management skills

• Ability to multi-task and meet strict deadlines

• Comfortable managing large volumes of transactions with a high attention to detail

• High degree of self-motivation and willingness to take ownership of tasks and deliver high-quality outcomes

• Continuous development mindset, with confidence to communicate issues and to implement solutions and then follow up

• Advanced Excel skills and ideally some experience with accounting systems such as NetSuite, Xero or similar

• Flexibility and ability to build strong relationships, operate effectively within cross-functional teams

• Financial services experience in a commercial or chartered accountancy practice

• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast changing environment

What's life like at Plenti?

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and success. If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then join to help us reshape Australia’s financial eco-system for the good.

In return, you will enjoy a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to take your career further. We offer flexible working and volunteer and study leave to develop your skills. We also have monthly social events, office snacks, company Townhalls and D&I initiatives and events to help you connect with your colleagues. 

Plenti is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities. When you apply, let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process so we can accommodate you.